Hi, John. No, I don't miss the headlines. I still get to write a few on Write Out Loud!

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Hi John. Yes, I found your penis, penis very interesting. The first line got the bigist laugh when I suddenly got your v cleaver word play. :-) Win

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Hi John, I had two pictures ready for the 'Snow Job' the other is a bit of a give-a-way since it shows a giant snow foot! Bit too obvious. This excited one from 'USA' seemed far more rude and therefore possibly captivating. It gained your attention anyway! Carry on with the wonderful songs and things, We all love 'em to bits. ta for comments, ta muchly, nick

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Hi John,
Thank you for the compliment - I don't have the means to do audio on here but these tales do originate from live performances of 'Hunting The Great White Prawn'.
Them sailors and their Rum ration eh?, they treated it as gold dust by all accounts!

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Depends what I've got to 'keepy-uppy', John.

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I have ambivalent thoughts about the mining industry. I accept its importance as a mainstay of the industrial might that propelled this small country to the fore in other days, yet feel immense sympathy for those men (and boys!) who worked in it, and the animals that had even less of a choice. Who, I have always wondered, would WANT to work as a miner? And with that in mind, I have also wondered why there should be such resistance to seeing the end of such a dangerous and debilitating way of life...especially if it offered the chance of another existence, helped by a financial incentive. There must be plenty of people seeking the opportunity to strike out on their own OR choose a different way of earning a living...even it it means moving elsewhere. But maybe that is the biggest hurdle for so many...moving elsewhere. Is it the fear of leaving what you know - a close-knit community in work however mean and hazardous - for the unknown of a wider world? This may be a "northern" trait as I recall that the tin miners of Cornwall became well known in other lands - seemingly willing to export their particular expertise.
Not a calling for the claustrophobic - and I wonder about life insurance rates!!

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John
there were indeed 'cruel bastards' (your words) among the miners- a 'cruel' and dangerous and underpaid profession that breeds both resentment to their exploitation and pride in their work. This condition can be found generally among sections of the working-class. But that is a secondary issue- too many people ignore the main issue of pit-closures, pay and conditions- any talk of such is, frankly - a distraction.
As for Scargill '' I wouldn't trust his wisdom on things he knew nothing about (the science of fuel technology).''(your words) The NUM had employed creditable scientific reports on such matters, supported by the scientific community generally.
On the tactics, yes there were things he should have done - giving Welsh miners the chance to discuss and campaign amongst themselves - before putting to a ballot.
Also there was discontent. In the 1982 strike ballot over threatened Welsh pits (the Yorkshire area, which came out first in 1984) voted against. This caused some confusion and bitterness among South Wales miners at the start of the 1984-85 strike. John the working class are not a homoginised group but will need a clear, resourceful and strong leadership.

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Perhaps I should explain my remarks about Sooty, John. For me, it's all down to the moment at the end of each programme when Harry Corbett addresses the audience, his face covered in gunk, and says, with an expression of world-weary stoicism: "Bye bye, everybody, bye bye." It has come a family catchphrase in our household; a moment when no other words will do. I don't remember much of the rest of it.

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Thanks for your feedback on 'A Tradition Saved' John-I have remedied the unforgivably sloppy non use of paragraphs. If Master Miles had seen that he would've nailed me to the mast by me ears!

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Thanks for you comments on the Last Kiss, John but tell me more about this position you were going to apply?

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I once went to a Bodyshop cosmetic party at someone's house, where the sales lady assured us that it wasn't hygenic to keep make-up for too long... as though our skin could possible absorb the germs from a bit of eye liner and mascara!

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HI John. thanksh for your commentsh on The New ME...hic

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Thanks for commenting on Agapanthus, John. They are quite tender plants, aren't they, originating from South Africa. I haven't had a great deal of luck with them. And maybe they don't like it so far north?!

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Hi John. Happy New Year. Take care, Tony.

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Thanks for the comment(s) about my carol. The
words came "as in a dream" and I surprised myself by getting a tune almost as readily.
I love the old carols and had a wish to contribute my own personal effort to the genre.
It is hugely satisfying to have done that and
I may yet get it on a commercial Christmas CD in the future.
I imagine your updates on a range of pop songs
must go down well in "live performance". You
seem to have NO shortage of material or inspiration. Great stuff.
Merry Christmas!

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Hi John,

You may be familiar with this link; if you're not Happy Christmas - enjoy!

http://monologues.co.uk/index2.htm

Regards,
A.E.

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Hi John. Thanks for your comments on Christine. Some people think that this is from events in my past. Christine lives in my imagination! I might write another poem based on what happens next! Take care, Tony.

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.. thanks John - think I'm passed the Lynx effect .. and that's the only time I worked in an office !!

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But hope The Bricklayer doesn't come over as too much of a rant. Its for people who say that those who are only now coming out with the neglect and abuse suffered 30 year or more ago are grown adults and should shut up and get over it.

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well I've racked my brain all day - and all night as you can see, but I'm blowed if I can work out which one is autobiographical!!!

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Thanks for your comments on Fool On The Hill (Vol 9) John. Yes, ants are very sociable beasts - and once one has decided to be a friend it'll never let you down.

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Thanks for your comments on my poem John - much appreciated.

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Oooooooooooo is that a promise? I'd LOVE to do a duet with you! There are endless possiblities - Sonny and Cher - I've got you babe - When I get old and losing my hair - Nancy and Frank Sinatra - Then I go and spoil it all by saying something stupid like....

You strum it and I'll hum it :)

ps I'm not normally up at this time - just suffering from a bit of insomnia :(

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Thanks for the comment on 'When The Wind...' John;

Yes-Poole born and bred. When I grew up there it was a dirty old seaport: potteries all around, grain silos & warehouses blowing choking dust all over town,, an overhead gantry dripping black as it conveyed coal from the ships to the gasworks. In short - a proper town. As you have seen, now it has been ponced up as a tourist trap. OK to visit but not somewhere you'd want to live - although the millionaires seem to like it.

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Hi John. Well yes, florentines are amazing are they not. I hve visited bettys for a friend and purchased a 'few' things as per her order. £18. nearly fainted! A new and longer version of my Ted Hughes poem has just been entered to the blogs section :-) Win

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Thanks for your comments on 'The Vikings' John - as usual your grasp of the situation is uncanny: In the 'ead, right I certainly aint!

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Thanks for your comments on mine John. Yes - I'm experimenting with a more simple style at the moment. I need to get back to comedy at some point - will have to hone my rhyming talent for that :)

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Hi John,

I guess I'm still alive since you're writing to me so I'd better find me pencil stub and me tatty bit of wallpaper and return to the chase. I've just been reading your Ikea song again and I can't stop laughing!

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Hi John, just listened to and enjoyed your Karma poem,Excellent observations as always, regards Paul.

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Thanks for commenting on Days, John. Yes, the change in rhythm was deliberate. It seems to work when spoken - perhaps not on the page. And another yes - the song is a favourite.

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Hello John.
Thank you for commenting on my poem, "The old Broken Doll." I am still posting, as a matter of fact tomorrow afternoon/evening I will be posting a very creepy poem about a doll.

See you!
Thanks
Shirley

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Hi JC - glad your found my post about "Waltzing Matilda" worth commenting on. I find it fascinating - and indeed, sinister - that the Franco/Bavarian(German) alliance you mention is busy trying to achieve the control of Europe in peacetime via dominance of the EU that it so signally failed to win at war over the past few centuries!
What about Norway handing them its Nobel Peace Prize? To me, that seems like rewarding the school bullies for restraining themselves from molesting the rest of the school playground! Don't they know about NATO in "No-way"?

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John, thanks for your words on Malcolm's Memorial Walk. It's dawning on me that I've written a few poems about walking, and they all have that undertone of, will he last the course? Thanks too for confirming that I made the cut for the York anthology. It's nice to be included, because I have lovely memories of the place. Have duly sent off for my copy!

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Hi John. Thank you for your comments on my poem "A Small Bud". Oh course this has a double meaning. Anything or anyone can flourish with just a little attention. Speaking of rain, we usually don't get a lot but as I write it is raining sideways. No kidding!
Thanks
Shirley

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Hello John, thanks for the 'where do I begin' comment .. I added the last verse when I was uploading it to note the years that have passed since I wrote it, true story, I was washing cars at a garage.

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Thanks for the sight of your tribute to the Polish fellows. It has always been Poland's tragedy that it lies - like a buffer - between two powerful nations and it has suffered at the hands of both! This country has a number of areas (including my own birthplace of South Devon) that have substantial Polish populations, with their own social centres and newspapers. Isn't the former Labour Minister for Europe the offspring of a WW2 Polish refugee and a Scots/Irish woman? I'm never quite sure though just what influences his own views as far as "England" and its sovereignty in the EU is concerned in his position as a Yorkshire (?!!) MP!

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Hello JC - I do appreciate your comment on my last post. I was recovering from pleased surprise upon finding my relative's grave so quickly when I chanced to look at the headstone next door. The human tragedy was "writ" in stone...and I was thinking about it hours later. Then came the verse.

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Hi John. I thought you might like to know that I added audio to my old poem "A Silly Poem about Hair". But no it's not me. I tried to record and first it wouldn't work. Then my voice just sounded awful. So no it's someone I paid.
Thanks
Shirley

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Thanks John, re Violinist. That is all I've written in months, brain totally constipated.

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Hi John
Thanks for the time on Grammar Blues
It started out as a poem about an 11 year old student, who I had witnessed outside my local Grammar. His Mum was actually straightening his hair, and taking a photo of him, her and his Dad right in front of the school.
It made my toes curl

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Thanks for your kinds words on Pictures, John. Yes, I agree, I feel I'm working against a deadline these days ... THE deadline, in fact.

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Hi John. Thank you for the kind words regarding my poem "Isabella Rose". She is my niece and was born with a serious heart condition. She is two months old and has never left the hospital. We continue to hope and pray.

Thanks
Shirley

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Thanks John.

Just a bit of fun

Ken

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Very entertaining! Love it. :)

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Errr...not quite! Just naughty antics in a graveyard : )

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The Press 'sisters'!!
I thought that all girls were supposed to be like that, especially coming from Dewsbury

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Hi, John thanks for the comments on 'Keirin for the old'
By the way thanks for your gig in Hull the other week, it was well paced and very enjoyable, p.s. loved the Ken Dodd's dad poem.

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Oh - I note a couple of recent posts on your profile.
At least, unlike me, you weren't accused of "ignorence"
(sic).

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JC - you're right! A song called "Tell Him" was a hit for a group called The Exciters back in 1963. Also - in the early 1980s, Barbra Streisand/Carly Simon had the same title (but I don't know if it was the SAME song) available from what I see online. But, as I say, there is no copyright in song titles and a few "standards" of yesteryear have had (usually inferior) songs of the same name appear years later.

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Hi John
Thanks for your endorsement
In a witty, brief refrain.
If I could pep your sex-life
I'd do it all again
But I am so bowled over
By your keen olympic praise
That I think you'll have to manage
With other tried and trusted ways!

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